A Mini Guide to Visiting Sevilla

Because Seville receives more and more tourism and there are places with free admission, outside of conventional itineraries... here you have my mini guide to visiting Sevilla that I hope you find it useful but please, do not tell many people or there will be overbooking. okay? Of course it's a joke, good thingsthere must be shared so do not be selfish and share this post everywhere.

Palace of the Marquises of La Algaba (behind the Mercado de Abastos and close to Feria Street where you can eat chic and cheap). Calderón de la Barca Square n. 1

It is the largest exponent of Mudejar civil architecture in the city. Second in importance after the Palace of King Pedro I in the Royal Alcazar of Seville, was about to disappear in the mid-twentieth century. It was part of the necropolis of the city in the eleventh century and at the beginning of the fifteenth century the Marquises of the Algaba acquire it to locate their housing-warehouse there (they were merchants). Rodrigo de Guzmán, the third lord of the dynasty, enlarges the palace turning it into a Renaissance one. It is a pleasure to walk through its rooms and visit its Mudejar Museum and also, free entrance. Do not miss it! How to get there: it is close to the Alameda de Hércules and Feria Street. Visit also the Mudejar church Omnium Sanctorum (in front of the palace) an old Almohad mosque built in the middle of the 13th century.

2. Museum of Fine Arts of Seville. Museo Square n.9 (close to Plaza de Armas Station and The Corte Inglés at Duque Square)

Presided over by a Murillo sculpture, the painter that the city celebrates its 400th anniversary this year, had it not been for the pillage that the Napoleonic troops caused in 1810, it would now be one of the most important museums in the world. In its origins it was a Mercedario Convent, hence its architecture that already deserves a visit. European citizens never pay, the rest € 1.5 it's so cheap, isn't it? If you like baroque Seville painting, especially Zurbarán, Murillo and Valdés Leal, as well as nineteenth-century Andalusian painting, this is your museum.

2. Museo de Bellas artes de Sevilla. Cerca de la Estación de autobuses Plaza de Armas

3. Castle of San Jorge. On the other side of the river, crossing the Puente de Triana, in front of the Monument to Tolerance of Eduardo Chillida.

The former headquarters of the Inquisition Court has now become a Thematic Center located on the remains of the castle crypt, located in the Mercado de Triana. Its sensory room with video installations recreates the atmosphere of defenselessness of the victims and abuses of power of the inquisitors. In the lower part, the route passes to the old barbican by a footbridge from which you can see the preserved archaeological remains, such as the pavement of the streets that led to the 'bridge of boats', the residence of the notary or the audience room. The tour ends in the panel of the victims, installed on the wall of the old prison, with the story of various real cases.